Title :
What groupware functionality do users really use? Analysis of the usage of the BSCW system
Author :
Appelt, Wolfgang
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Appl. Inf. Technol., Nat. Res. Center for Inf. Technol., St. Augustin, Germany
Abstract :
The BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) Shared Workspace System is a Web based groupware system developed at GMD that is used by more than 100,000 users world-wide. This paper describes an analysis of the actual usage of the features provided by the system, based on a statistical evaluation of the logfile of the BSCW server http://bscw.gmd.de over a period of more than ten months
Keywords :
groupware; BSCW system; Shared Workspace System; groupware functionality; statistical evaluation; usage; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; File servers; Information analysis; Information technology; Internet; Natural languages; Permission; Uniform resource locators; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2001. Proceedings. Ninth Euromicro Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Mantova
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0987-8
DOI :
10.1109/EMPDP.2001.905060
